This Tool Makes YOUR GoPro look like a High-End Cinema Camera

Make your GoPro suck less with these pro techniques.

In this video, I will show you the exact techniques I use to match GoPro footage with high-end cameras.

TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
1:37 Discovering problems with your footage
1:58 Applying Lens Correction
3:02 Applying Motion Blur
8:04 Pro way of using the motion blur fx
10:00 Conclusion

ABOUT ME
I'm Waqas Qazi, founder and senior colorist at Qazi & Co. I have worked with PRIME VIDEO, ADIDAS, TOYOTA, VIZIO, etc. My mission is to share industry secrets by making fun and practical videos on color grading.

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[scottvogel]

What I love about your videos and your course. Is that you respect our intelligence. Only explaining something when it's a concept or method that isn't usually used.

[VietinghoffAlex]

You can also tackle it in-camera by making sure you're shooting as flat as possible (you can do this using GoPro Labs), turn sharpening and noise reduction down all the way, and use a GoPro ND strong enough to allow you to shoot at a 180 degree shutter, so if you're shooting 60p for example, manually set your shutter to 1/125. Also turn off settings like auto shutter and auto ISO. You can even control the level of fisheye in camera.

[gabrielshen]

Definitely a good alternative way to fake a slower shutter speed, since most of the time to get that 180 degree rule you need to put a ND filter on your camera, but also requires your shooting setting to be consistent in lighting. But in a situation where the environment is always changing, setting the shutter speed to auto and faking the motion blur in post is quite a good workaround.

[donovankean]

This is PERFECT. Thank you! I'm for sure going to use this for speed ramping. Adding motion blur makes ramping look SO much better, but before I always got the ghosting artifacts.

[alistercarmichael]

Yes. Another huge insight as to what and why footage looks the way it does. Shot matching or creating a look all in mind.
As for your own studio look on the channel, i love the vibrant and bold festival of light. Very sharp.

[timothycoyle]

I don't have a gopro, but have been looking for a tutorial on how to apply realistic motion blur to videos for forever. Thanks for the knowledge!

[ThoeedEditz]

Qazi sir. U r videos are far better than others. You're so humble and well explainer

[hollywoodninja]

Awesome video as always! For this one I had no idea you could do a frame by frame with period and comma! You are da man!

[OrlovIV]

Finaly you made it!!! Its been two years since i left a comment asking to make instructions on gopro video. I gotta celebrate this!!!

[agentur-langfilm]

Crazy effect! Thank you for showing us this insane way to make GoPro footage look professional!

[yeagershots]

Me from 5 years ago would be in shock to see what can be done today. 20 year ago me would probably faint. Great video Qazi!

[videoninjashu]

Thank you! Especially the motion blur fx without ghosting!!!

[JoshMiles]

Super impressive @theqazman - That motion blur lesson was so informative and helpful, definitely worth the price of admission! Thank you for sharing so much killer content!

[boogalice]

This is great. If you're in control of the production process, you can ensure your GoPro has the correct shutter speed, and you won't need to add the motion blur in post.

[apmanti]

Hey bro, Im using this trick with my cheap drone and it is working and making it better, thanks again!

[JTPOV]

friend great video but I'm interested in that color correction you did please how do I get those cinema style colors? do you use a lut? or what settings should I put on saturation and curves to have those cinema colors you applied?

[lulumink]

Holy smokes, this is exactly what I needed and wanted. and you brought it up! Thank you for doing this again and again.

[DrivenBy_Seb]

Great tutorial, a question is for me, if you do a Vlog outside than many times change light and all things, do you colorgrade each clip (can be that you have 20clips) or you bond them together and grade all in one?
And one thing maybe you can give me a tip, i use Canon 90D which have no Log recording, but i record with ACES colors file (you can get for canon 90D file for ACES upload on camera and it shoot flat colors) my problem is that when i put inside in Davici that is ACES colors than come all messy and not correct, many time i need to play with presetings of cameras. Do you have any tip on this?
Thanks

[ColindeSilva]

Good to see some GoPro-specific content, going to try this out. that "based on previous frame" setting is a good find. never liked the generic blur

[Flamamacue]

I've used the motion blur a lot but not in the FX/node and had no idea they had that setting. Why not include that in the main tab? Thanks for the tip, comes in so handy for not only GoPro but things like iPhone 15 log footage etc too. So many super versatile small cameras that can get some natural blur without needing to add NDs to the mix. Amazing!